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This makes sense to me as a characterization, thank you, although I don't understand why people get so upset about these distinctions as if I had personally offended them. Where I …

I did not call the NYT a far left magazine. I said their reporting on EUROPEAN politics ("politics here") copies points from the far left (e.g. all mass migration is unquestionably…

To be honest I think you are just proving my point by getting upset and calling me 'ranty right'. Tribalism sells because it triggers emotions like these. It works for the Guardian…

A good read on this is (at least to me as an outsider to American politics): https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal...

The greatest marketing trick the NYT has ever pulled off is presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era. Nothing could be further from the truth. I th…

The Washington Post. The NYT is unapologetically taking a side in the culture war and on many issues (campus politics, feminism, title IX, migration..) will ever only let one side …

Your argument buys into the core of identity politics, namely creating a hierarchy of oppressors and victims, where the supposed victims can do no wrong. I find this an incredibly …

I would disagree with 3 because there are many in 2 and 3 which can go to 1 just by losing their job and e.g. having one high medical bill (in the states at least). So surely there…

You are referring to my comment about 'worth their salt' in a gross misreading. I said anyone worth their salt has other choices, so going to FB is a deliberate choice on these pro…

Any researcher in this area worth their salt can easily get cloud credit grants and collaborations from Google, Microsoft, Amazon. I pose if you go to Facebook, it's very much abou…

I understand the call of money but I cannot help but feel very negatively towards academics doing this with facebook of all organisations. After recent events, they cannot pretend …

I completely disagree. You can find Google's pricing tactic aggressive, but it made me think about the entitlement there. They complain that Maps at new prices would be more than t…

The problem is that antitrust laws like these are very selectively enforced. Selection and prosecution of these cases is hence inherently political as these are non-standardized ar…

This is a weirdly shallow article containing lots of diagrams and bullet points to just summarize the known points that RL needs a lot of data and needs to learn from scratch. No m…

Thank you this is a helpful data point.

Thank you for the response. It seems like liquidation preferences really come into play at growth stage when things get 'messier' due to capital needs, and declining them at seed r…

Can someone familiar with the current funding climate say if standard deals at all levels involve liquidation preference nowadays? As in, if Im considering a seed-round, will there…

The guy said 'allow me to disagree slightly' after complimenting her on her thread and she lashed out at him in a highly unprofessional manner. Thinking you can interact with custo…

There are schools in various countries, e.g. Romania, which are known for producing extremely well prepared applicants. They select for these schools from the entire country and ha…

Each applicant receives multiple interviews and I can perform one of these as a PhD student, and have received the same training any faculty member would have. The interview proces…

I am aware, PhD students design and mark these questions, and can interview :) The point is that if you go to a target school doing Math olympiads throughout your school life, the …

>They try hard to let in disadvantaged kids, but it's a crap shoot deciding who has potential and who doesn't. They rarely care about anything other than academics. (I'm not sure h…

Thank you, I had not considered that. I think researchers or a HN audience may perceive this differently than the average reader.

So this goes off on a tangent but I feel it relates to noncentrality [0]. Fokas has a PhD in maths. Being an MD or having gotten an MD 40 years ago is clearly entirely non-central …

Just pointing out that interestingly Cambridge, where Fokas is a professor, has not released anything. He is merely visiting USC so it strikes me as weird that they would claim thi…